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• EDITORIAL PAGE •
"If a nation exports to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what
anJ mixr will be... H here the press is ft ee am! every man able to read, all is soft
never was
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Clifton, Texas
Thursday, May 20, 1971
NEWS of NEIGHBORS
Gleaned from Nearby Newspapers
The SST? Durned if we cL\ etc.
A big bunch of us taxpayers sort of
breathed a collective sigh of relief some
week ago when Congress voted to discon-
tinue work on the ultra-expensive “super-
sonic transport" iSSTi because it was so
costly.
Hardly had we caught our breaths
again, however, before we hear that
some members of Congress now content
that it will cost as much to shut down
the Boeing project as it would to contin-
ue the project, so they are trying to re-
surrect the program.
As this again caused the lumps in
our throats, along comes the Board Chair-
man of Boeing. William Allen, and savs
that it could cost as much as a billion
dollars to complete the SST prototype.
Miscellaneous Shower
Honors Mrs. Dickerson
Thursday evening, March 18,
Mrs. Chester Ernest Dickerson
was honored with a miscellan-
eous shower in the home of Mrs.
W. L. Forson. Mrs, Dickerson
is the former Leiloni Frances
to eligible farmers and ranchers.,, , , ,, ,. . ,, , „ ,.----—
of the county suffering froin the S‘ia of Hawaii. Sr'is lfl" ”au*|ghowr in last week's paper,
drouth. °f t*1p ]a!f ^ ' a", ^ 1 j | We greatly appreciate the pub-
Fili T. Soal of Samoa. Mi. and jjcjjv an(j cooperation that you
GATES VILI.E MESSENGER j Mrs. Dickerson were married j atK|‘V0,ir slaff j,ave always given
Contractors' bids on the eon- October 23rd, 1970. in Honolu-! ^ Clifton Garden Club.
struction of a new building for! lu. Hawaii, where Mr. Dickerson
the National Bank of Gatesville is stationed with the Unitedj
McGREGOR MIRROR
McGregor will host the annual
invitational twirling contest for
the tenth year Saturday. Some
250 girls will be attracted from
tljroughoat Central Texas.
' ! HAMILTON HERALD-NEWS
Then Sunday it is rep \1 that Chief Drouth-plagued Hamilton Conn-!are to be opened May 27. Bank States Navy.
White House lobbyist Click MacGregor ty finally got some relief from j president W. D. Cooper announc- The honeree and h^r Wother-
comes along and says that Allen spoke ^e growing economic problems ed this week. in l aw, Mrs. 0. E. Dickerson,
too soon and that Boeing is revising its l'aused by the drouth this weeli Plans and specifications for the were presented with yellow cor-
estimates “sharply downward" Allen had when the ft‘deral government! new construction structure have sages of Jack-straw poppom.
no comment F ' j moved on several fronts to help ! already gone out to several diffe-1 Mrs. Burton Collins greeted
MacGrePnr ritps other estimotec ,J!<M;al farmers' rent contractors. At least a the guests as they arrived
«-nn ur e&°.r a*' I5 a? 1 Las! Wednesday, Congressman dozen birds are expected. They Mrs. Miriam Poe presided at
million to dismantle the hSi and Omar Burleson announced that will be opened two weeks from the Bride's Book
Letter to The Editor
May II, 1971
Dear Mr. Smith and Mr. Logan,
On behalf of members of the
Clifton Garden Club. I wish to
thank you and members ot your I
staff for the fine pictures and !
news coverage of our Flower
Sincerely.
Mrs. Ray Byford. Tres.
Clifton Garden Club
$500 million to comnlete production of
two prototype aircraft.
Now to spend half a billion dollars
of hard-earned taxpayers’ money to build
two airplanes, that not even one fraction
of one percent of' American people will
ever get to flv in, is preposterous.
But to spend more than that in order
“not to build it" is so unthinkable that
it leaveS most of us in a state of shock.
— Sam Logan
the Farmers Home Administra- tonight at 7:30 in the National
tion had authorized emergency Bank’s Civic Room.
GLANCE AT THE PAST
From the Files of The Clifton Record
Young Homemakers Say
Sewing is Satisfying,
More Economical
The Homemaking I class is
The serving "table was laid'just finishing the last of their
with candlelight linen cloth and sewing projects. In the fall the
centered with an arangement of brst sewing project is a simple
spring flowers. Guests were garment such as a jumper. Now
served yellow fruit punch, sewing includes more Advanced a Ilian aiKI W1
nuts, and white cake squares garments such as pants. Jump caupjlt 49 channels
with white frosting topped with i subs dress-es blouses, ho. pants. jfl nmmds of] b,ood and gh£
j tiny yellow rosebuds and green , a™ shoit sets,
i leaves. Miss Lynne Enochs ladl- Maggie Luckenbach repot ts.
FISHERMENS
REPORT
OL LAKE WHITNEY had a
bunch of activity this past week-
end as there were 2 fishing lour-
neys held there. The tournament
anglers caueht the biggest blacks
with one old fellow going 7 and
one-fourth pounds.
Us Demos Sorely Need a Leader
An Associated Press story originat-
ing in New Jersey this week proclaims
that Edward M. Kennedy has moved ahead
of Sen Edmund Muskie as the first choice
of registered Democrats to run for Presi-
dent, according to the latest Gallup Poll.
This poll claims that 29 percent of
the Democrats in the country favor Ken-
nedy with Sen. Muskie next with 21 per-
cent.
Sen. Hubert Humnhrey was third with
18 percent. Sen Georee McGovern (the
onlv announced candidate) got five per-
cent; New York Maver John T indsav r»ot
four nercent. and former Sen. Eugene Mc-
Carthy received three percent.
The poll claims it conducted the
survev interviewing 533, showing them
a card with the names of 13 men who
have figured prominently in speculation
over the 1972 presidential nomination.
Now this corner has two comments.
One. how can any firm interview as few
as 533 persons in a nation of 200 million
and expect anyone to believe the results
j cennes, Indiana, has qualified
j for admission to the United Stat-
es Academy at West Point, New
York, when a class enters the
The second comment is, that if this Academ*v 1!1 Ju!-Vt
l ed punch and Miss Unda, "Sewing is important to me be
^ I Schwartz served cake. j cause I think it's great to be able
ton has been named a winner of i Hostesses for the occasion j lu do something for yourself: and
the 14th annual English Honors I were- Mmos W. L. Forson, Keilh "ben I sew my own clothes I
Session at Texas Stale College Osbern Edward Brown, H. A. can sew more garments fur less
and Mrs. Horace Schow. ol Yin-; for Women. She is the daughter . Carr. Burton Collins, Earl Cor-1 money than it would take to buy
Two couples caught 2.70 san-
dies using minnows and four
couples caught 150 crappie and
sandies on minnows fishing at
night. One consistant trotiiner
caueht 47 channel cat in a 3-day
period. And a man and wife trot-
up to
jfi pounds on blood and shad. And
yet another trotiiner caught a
12 and 13 pound yellowest on
bream.
2C years ago, May 18, 1951
Word has reached Clifton that
) Horace Schow Jr., son of Mr.
of the poll?
of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Moore pier. John Cummins, A. H.
of Route 2. Clifton. [Cash. Clifford Dyer, F. L. Elder,
I Joe Enochs, D. A. Oloff. Jerry
Honor students of the graduat- Godby, G. W. Gutt&:i.e, E. E.
ing class at the Cranfiils Gap Harvey, Joe Hinson,/ 'Frances
is all the candidates tbit the nemnmtie ; The young man is th" grami' High Sch°o1 for ,his yt>ar are Hatter. Leo Jenson. (Ttho Jones.
!Soa ‘ inc canaiclales U:;“ democratic son o( Mr an,j Mrs o E Schow Aivin Meissner, valedictorian. Gus Krueger, W. W. Land. H.
1 arty can come up Witn, tnen 1 m glaaiam] a nephew of E. E. Schow! with an average of 96.82. and ID. Mackey, Tommy Mann, O. W
we dont have a presidential election in and Mrs. Sam M. Ringness of
lq7l Maybe by 1972 we can come uo! Clifton, and a grandson of Mr
whh a candidate who will be at least half- and Mrs. Jim Sears of Valley
wav acceptable to the moderate and cor-1Mills.
$"rvative Democrats in this country. Of
all those listed in the AP storv, onlv Mus- ^ou?,as 0ai!sback. who has
kie is even half wav acceptable to a hug'’ Ibof,n ,°hne af the to” sergeants
number of Democrats The others ar»*w,th ,he Na,10nal C,uard 1
u ... r , °a's in Otners or (appeared before the officers
so liberal that manv Democrats would I boBrd at Waco ias, wcpk and
rather vote Republican than stav with I received notice that he had quali-
such a liberal candidate as Kennedy or fi,’d and would receive his com-
Humphrey (as has already been proven!,
much less a candidate of the McGovern ****** May 27. j months,
or McCarthy calibre. The Democratic par-
ty in both Texas and the nation as a
whole, has a majority. So the/only wav
they can lose is have such an t/napnealing
candidate that Democrats vole Republi-
can. Sometimes we can't undeW-^nd our
own party’s leadership.
— Sam iLogan
those garments in a store.
Summer Homemaking
Classes Being Offered
Classes in homemaking will be
offered this summer at Clifton j
High School. One half credit may (
mission as a second lieutenant at
an early date.
Miss Elizabeth Moore of Clif-
Moshiem News
Mrs. Marshall Mitchell
Guests in the homo of Mr and
Mrs. Otis Miles this weekend
were Mr. and Mrs. E. A. "Gar-
ren of Valley Mills, Clarence Abel
of Sonora. Calif., and Mrs. Mat-
tie Newton of Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hicks and
children Caron and Garv. of
in Botque County n„ Sota and Mr and Mrs Tom
Hooser, Mrs. Ola Keitt and
Mrs. Fletcher Bonnet of Frost
visited in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charley Miles on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Warren
have been in Dallas to 1* with
their son, James Warren, who
was critically burned last week
in an accident while at work.
Bosque, Coryell. Hill, McLennan, Erath. Johnson, Somervell and Hamilton counties, 1 Yr.....$4 00 ’ Hosnita]^ in DMhs' ^
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Former Mosheim
Man Critically
Burned May 12
_ (EDITOR'S NOTE: The follow-
ing story is being reprinted from
the May 13th issue of the McKin-
ney Courier-Gazette and reports
on an accident which killed one
man and critically injured a
former Mosheim resident'.
“I heard a noise and rushed to
the front door,” Mrs. W. 0.
Gaither of 1404 First Street said.
There, she said she saw two
workmen in a raised power i
bucket which was aflame.
“I screamed for them to jump. ]
to jump,” she said. “Finally;
one of them did.”
An electrical fire took the life
of one man and left another criti-
cally injured at 6:15 p.m. Wednes-
day.
Dead is Homer Grant. 27, of
Nacogdoches and in critical con-!
dition at Parkland Hospital in!
Dallas is James Warren, 25, of
Mosheim.
The two were employed by
Trees of Houston, a firm employ-
ed to trim trees near power lines
FOR ALL MONUMENTS...
- SEE OR CALI -
Curtis Bakke - Phone 675-3939
DIETZ MEMORIAL COMPANY
Manufacturers of MONUMENTS in Granite and Marble
LIVE OAK NURSERY
511 Live Oak — Clifton
Phone 675-8155
SALE ON ROSE BUSHES
98c non pot
$1.89 Pot
QUEEN WREATHS in Gallon Buckets
ST. AUGUSTINE GRASS
LADY BANSKIA ROSES
FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
CANTALOUPE & WATERMELONS
in the city. They were trimming
trees in a pow^r lifted bucket
when the accident occurred at
1404 First Street.
Fire, police, and other officials
rushed to the scene only to be
left standing helpless until one
of the men jumoed from the
bucket because of the danger of
putting water on electrical flame.
Officials say they apparently
started to move the bucket and
somehow got into the power lin-
es, starting the fire.
“We don't know how it happen-
ed”, Boyd Williams, manager of
the Texas Power and Light Co.
office here said. “We- are trying
to reconstruct the incident to
determine how it happened.”
Officials believe the hydraulic
fluid in the lift caught fire, caus-
ing the unit to become inopera-
tive and leaving the, two men
stranded in the air.
When police officers arrived,
they found the two men trapped
j in the raised bucket, which was
, on fire.
Warren leaped from the buek-
j et, falling to the ground, aflame.
McKinney patrolman Pat Efird
and an unidentified passer-by ex-
tinguished the fire in Warren’s
clothing. Efird suffered burns
about the hands in the process.
Finally, the bucket burned
through and the body of the
other man fell through to the
ground. He was pronounced dead
at the scene.
Officials were continuing their
investigation this morning, try-
ing to determine exactly what
took place to cause the fire.
The fire was believed to be
the cause of Grant’s death, al-
though authorities have not ruled
out the possibility of electrocu-
tion as the cause.
Homer Wayne Grant, 26, tem-
porarily of Blue Ridge was a
native Texan, born March id,
1944, the son of J. L, and Hattie
Wilkerson Grant.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Hattie Grant of Baytown;
two brothers, Bill Grant of Blue
Ridge and Jessie L. Grant of
Baytown; four sisters, Mrs. Lil-
lie Sanches, Livingston; Mrs.
Nadine Calhoun and Mrs. Dorothy
Shepherd of Baytown and Mrs.
Laverne Holliday of Lufkin.
John Mitchell of Fort Worth,
Mrs. R. W. Lumpkins of Aber-
nathv. and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mitchell and Meaean of Groves
veiled in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Marsha] Mitchell last week-
end.
Kinda looks like our eat fish-
ing is finally here. But the crap-
pie fishing is just about over.
Ain’t heard much more, people
just won't tell these things.
KING CREEK LODGE - No
outstanding blacks were taken
but several good stringer of crap-
pie and sandies were taken t when
the wind permitted'. Also trot-
Edoris Rohne, salutatorian. with Poe. W. D. Porter. S. E Rags-j be earned on completion of the n^nd bhie eaTheinu HklJ
an average of 96.42, according to dale. Carl Remington, L. P.: course. Students who have had, P s n,
George Hughes, superintendent Schrentz.’ Jim Sinclair. M. D. two regular semesters oi home-1 Please report good catches to
of the Cranfiils Gap Schools.|Sparks. T. J. White, and S L. j making are eligible. Classes be-!Olson’s Mobil Station in Clifton.
Alvin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. : Witcher. ! gin June 9 at 8:45 a m. in the ] or the Clifton Record, and wo
Albert Meissner, and Eudoris. is; Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson and homemaking department, and j will be glad to take pictures or
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick spent two weeks in Clif- last two and one-half hours each j we'll use your pictures of excep.
Ernest Rohne. Jon with his parents, Mr, and j weekday morning until 25 hours tional catches to be run in the
Mrs. C. E Dickerson and his! are completed. The rest of the j Record.
Virginia Helm of Cranfiils Gap brother. Ronnie, on their way j course will be completed at!-----
is among the lop ten honor grad- from Honolulu to Great Lakes! home and final reports arc due I
uates of Tarleton State College; Training Center in Illinois where I August 11. For further informa-!
who will receive diplomas at t Chester will be going to “B”; tion, contact Mrs. M. B. Jame-
eeremonies in Stephenvilie, j School for approximately eight j son at school.
IF von have anything to buy,
sell or trade call The Cliftoa
Record 675-3336.
JEWELRY ALWAYS
means more in boxes
from Armstrong’s
BEST VALUES
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Clifton Folks... ‘
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Seljos j
boarded the plane at Waco on
May 8 to Dallas, transferred to!
| American Air Lines to fly to Dul- j
i las Airport in Washington, D. C. j
! They were met by Mr. and Mrs.
Pat Murphy and family. Mrs.
! Murphy is the daughter of Mrs.
! Seljos. They also visited Mr. and I
j Mrs. Lloyd Seljos and family of i
Silver Springs. Maryland, return-
ing home on May 16.
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MAY 23,. 24,. 25
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Logan, Sam D., Jr. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1971, newspaper, May 20, 1971; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth797466/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.